GLAAD - Emily Saliershttp://www.glaad.org/tags/emily-saliers
enThe GLAAD Wrap: Comcast unveils LGBT Pride package; Pet Shop Boys release new single; FarFaria to launch LGBT-inclusive children's bookshttp://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-wrap-comcast-unveils-lgbt-pride-package-pet-shop-boys-release-new-single-farfaria-launch
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span id="styles-0-0" class="styles file-styles 750px"> <img src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/750px/public/FE_130523_liberace620x413.jpg?itok=dpbx3Njy" alt="" title="" /></span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><img class="media-image" height="193" id="2" style="float: right; margin-left: 3px; margin-right: 3px;;" width="193" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/4770083b30a48c868084678343ba534f.jpeg?itok=4BrBVz11" alt="" /><strong>1) </strong><a href="http://www.multichannel.com/distribution/comcast-launches-lgbt-vod-package/143641">In honor of Pride Month, Comcast is featuring an assortment of LGBT films, documentaries, and TV shows</a> that can be streamed for viewing on platforms like the Xfinity TV application for Xbox 360, Xfinity.com and XfinityTV.com. By entering Xfinity.com/LGBT into the address bar, you will be taken to an exclusive LGBT media page. Some of the films available through Comcast's LGBT bundle include <em>A Single Man, The Birdcage, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Kissing Jessica Stein</em> and HBO's recently released <em>Behind the Candelabra</em> with Matt Damon and Michael Douglas.</p>
<p><img class="media-image" height="220" id="2" style="margin: 3px; float: left;;;;;" width="220" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/Pet-Shop-Boys-Vocal.jpg?itok=KPirKULA" alt="" /><strong>2) </strong>Hailing from the United Kingdom, electronic music duo <a href="http://www.towleroad.com/2013/06/psbvocal.html">Pet Shop Boys, (Chris Lowe and out Neil Tennant), have released their new single, "Vocal."</a> The hit single has been endorsed by high-profile DJ Armin Van Buuren, who used it in one of his remixes, now available on iTunes. "Vocal" is a prelude to the Pet Shop Boys' twelfth album, <em>Electric</em>, available July 15.</p>
<p><img class="media-image" height="180" id="2" style="width: 255px; height: 180px; margin: 3px; float: right;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;" width="255" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/emilysaliers.jpg?itok=HmViHCPH" alt="" /><strong>3) </strong><a href="http://www.nodepression.com/profiles/blogs/emily-saliers-on-joan-baez-michigan-womyn-s-festival">Indigo Girls' Emily Saliers may go the solo musician route with a new album within the next year.</a> While rumors of a solo record have been swirling for a while, Saliers says she's been occupied with Indigo Girls symphony concerts and spending time with her partner in Canada. "I guess I’m not the type of person who can focus on a lot of things at one time," Saliers said. "I have a mound of creative energy that gets used up then has to be refreshed."</p>
<p><img class="media-image" height="180" id="2" style="width: 180px; height: 180px; margin: 3px; float: left;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;" width="180" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/lammys.jpg?itok=Ol7kizCS" alt="" /><strong>4) </strong>The winners of 25<sup>th</sup> Annual Lambda Literary Awards, hosted by comedian Kate Clinton, were announced on Tuesday at a ceremony that drew a crowd of nearly 500 spectators to celebrate contributions to LGBT literature. Among the many categories recognized during the ceremony were the recipients of the Transgender Fiction award. "For the first time, transgender people are accepting the award for transgender literature," said Imogen Binnie, author of <em>The Fact That It's Funny Doesn't Make It A Joke </em>and <em>Stereotype Threat. </em>A full list of the award recipients is available <a href="http://www.lambdaliterary.org/llf-news/2th-annual-lambda-literary-awards/">here.</a></p>
<p><img class="media-image" height="221" id="2" style="margin: 3px; float: right;;;;;;" width="146" src="http://www.glaad.org/sites/default/files/styles/large/public/00-Final-Cover-PatrickPride-LSilvestri-PDeLeon.jpg?itok=yPHYsc2G" alt="" /><strong>5) </strong><a href="http://www.farfaria.com/">FarFaria</a>, the unlimited storybook iPad app, will be releasing four stories during June focusing on LGBT acceptance to honor Pride month. The first story, <a href="http://www.farfaria.com/stories/title/patrick-s-pride"><em>Patrick's Pride</em> is about a lion cub and his two moms, and is available for download now</a>. Future releases will come out on June 12 (<em>Henry and the Venus Flytrap</em>), June 20 (<em>The Boy with the Pink Socks</em>), and June 25 (<em>Kindness Grows</em>).</p>
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<p><strong>6)</strong> <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1020680051/winning-dad"><em>Winning Dad</em> has nine more days to reach their $30,000 goal through Kickstarter to complete their film.</a> The story focuses on Colby (Jake Street), who hopes to introduce his boyfriend Rusty (writer/director of <em>Winning Dad,</em> Arthur Allen) into his family. Colby's father (Chuck Sigars) refuses to discuss his son's sexuality, so Colby tricks his father into a camping trip with him and Rusty to see if they will get along. The <em>Winning Dad</em> team hopes to show viewers through the film that family love and acceptance of a relationship are values shared by all people.</p>
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">June 7, 2013</span></div></div></div>
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<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/issues/music">Music</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/issues/film">Film</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/issues/television">Television</a></li>
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<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/comcast">Comcast</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/behind-candelabra">Behind the Candelabra</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/xfinity">Xfinity</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/xfinitytvcom">XfinityTV.com</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/pet-shop-boys">Pet Shop Boys</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/armin-van-buuren">Armin Van Buuren</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/indigo-girls">Indigo Girls</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/emily-saliers">Emily Saliers</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/lambda-literary-awards">Lambda Literary Awards</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/farfaria">FarFaria</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/patricks-pride">Patrick&#039;s Pride</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/winning-dad">Winning Dad</a>, </li>
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Thu, 06 Jun 2013 22:31:36 +0000nataliemeier66371 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/blog/glaad-wrap-comcast-unveils-lgbt-pride-package-pet-shop-boys-release-new-single-farfaria-launch#commentsAccess Hollywood Chats Up Emily Saliershttp://www.glaad.org/2009/04/08/access-hollywood-chats-up-emily-saliers
<div class="field field-name-field-blog-featured field-type-file field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p><strong>Emily Saliers</strong>, perhaps better known as one-half of the folk band, <a href="http://www.indigogirls.com/open.html"><strong>Indigo Girls</strong></a>, recently sat down with <a href="http://www.accesshollywood.com/on-the-download/on-the-download-indigo-girls_article_16325"><em>Access Hollywood</em></a> to discuss her 20-year-career, the new <span id="print_content">double-disc album, “Poseidon and the Bitter Bug,”</span> and the duo's upcoming appearance at the Dinah Shore Weekend in Palm Springs. </p>
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<a href="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/emilysaliers.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-7725" title="emilysaliers" src="http://glaadblog.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/emilysaliers-300x211.jpg" alt="" width="300" height="211" /></a>You should read the article in its entirety <a href="http://www.accesshollywood.com/on-the-download/on-the-download-indigo-girls_article_16325">here</a>, but here are some highlights:</p>
<blockquote><p><span id="print_content"><em><strong>Jeremy Blacklow, Access Hollywood:</strong></em></span><em><strong> </strong>It’s been 20 years ago since you broke through—I mean there weren’t really a lot of out gay artists then, like there are today — there was Freddie Mercury — but Elton John and <span class="autolink">George Michael </span>hadn’t come out yet. How have things changed in your mind over the last twp decades for artists in the music industry to be out?</em></p>
<p><strong>Emily Saliers:</strong> You know, I think there was more of a climate of fear about what would happen to your career if you came out back then in those days. I mean, a lot has changed in 20 years. Obviously, we still have a long way to go. Like with Prop 8, when that happens, it’s like, ‘Damn, have we come far or have we not?’ Maybe not, you know? I don’t think that there’s the same concern in terms of coming out and how it’s going to affect your career now. I mean if you look like at <span class="autolink"><span>Clay Aiken</span></span>, who’s an <span class="autolink"><span>American Idol</span></span>, coming out, and with people like Elton out and Ellen, <span class="autolink"><span>P</span></span><span class="autolink"><span>ortia de Rossi</span></span>, main stream artists or actors or people in the arts… it really helps the cause a lot. Or <span class="autolink"><span>Lance Bass</span></span>, you know, who would think that a guy like that would come out? So obviously more people would come out, which means they’re more comfortable to come out, which means they’re less concerned with what could happen to their career. And that is a positive climate to be in.</p>
<p><span id="print_content"><em><strong>JB: </strong>One of the biggest hits in <span class="autolink"><span>pop</span></span> music in 2008 was a song called “I Kissed a Girl” by Katy Perry. What are your thoughts on a straight woman appropriating lesbian behavior for mainstream success?</em></span></p>
<p><strong>ES:</strong> I don’t lose sleep over it, but it definitely gets under my skin. You know, I think it’s… that song is a pop song and it’s very catchy. It didn’t make me angry but it’s a little bit like, ‘Come on!’ When you sing a song about kissing a girl and it’s just a pop song and you go back to your boyfriend and nothing politically has shifted in the social consciousness, what good is that? So, for me, it’s not offensive, but it’s not responsible either. And any time you appropriate something that’s not yours and start expressing things about it, it’s, you know, you’re removed from the reality. So I just think it’s a pop song, and it’s a little misguided, but she probably didn’t mean any harm by it and life goes on.</p></blockquote>
<p>The <a href="http://www.indigogirls.com/open.html">Indigo Girls</a>' newest album, <span id="print_content">“Poseidon and the Bitter Bug,” </span>is available in stores now.<br /></p><div align="left">
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</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-pubdate field-type-datetime field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">April 8, 2009</span></div></div></div>
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<li class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/emily-saliers">Emily Saliers</a>, </li>
<li class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/indigo-girls">Indigo Girls</a></li>
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Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:15:57 +0000glaad31880 at http://www.glaad.orghttp://www.glaad.org/2009/04/08/access-hollywood-chats-up-emily-saliers#comments